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20 Best Learning Apps for Kids

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Using this app, kids can explore outer space, meet some dinosaurs, build a robot, become a superhero, and more – all in one whimsical world full of Sago Mini friends. Subscribers get unlimited access to hundreds of activities and early access to new releases. Reading Eggs is a perfect gift for curious kids ages 2–13!

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

In one survey, a large majority (80 percent) of math teachers reported that free instructional content from Khan Academy helped them challenge their most advanced students, and a smaller but still significant majority (66 percent) reported that it gave them extra capacity to help their most struggling students make the gains they needed.

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Code With Kids and See What Happens - written with Karly Moura!

Adam Welcome

With code.org and other resources, block coding is an excellent place to start, especially with Elementary students - check it out! Code has been in our lives for years, and thankfully has now been mainstreamed so everyone can have access and learn. Robots are cool. Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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Code With Kids and See What Happens #hourofcode #edtech #edchat #caedchat

Adam Welcome

With code.org and other resources, block coding is an excellent place to start, especially with Elementary students - check it out! Code has been in our lives for years, and thankfully has now been mainstreamed so everyone can have access and learn. Robots are cool. Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Coding in the Classroom

Graphite Blog

For beginners, apps that use blocks rather than just coding language are more accessible. If you'd prefer to begin by teaching a particular coding language, you'll want to choose one that is common and accessible, like Python, Java, or Ruby. Khan Academy and Code Conquest each have some good ideas for this.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Testing, Testing… From the Khan Academy blog : “ Khan Academy is the Official Practice Partner for AP.” ” This is the second major partnership the organization has made with the College Board , as Khan Academy is also its test prep site of choice for the SAT.